Andrew Coats collection 1898-1913

Coats, Andrew

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Andrew Coats was born on 27 May 1852, sixth son of Thomas Coats, a partner in a wealthy firm of thread manufacturers in Paisley, Scotland. In 1898, he led the British Sport-hunting and Scientific Expedition, primarily a private sporting expedition for shooting bears and walruses, but with some scientific programs to be conducted by the naturalist William Speirs Bruce. Sailing in Blencathra from Gare Loch in Scotland, the expedition called at Trompsø before heading for Novaya Zemlya....

British Sport-hunting and Scientific Expedition Russian Arctic, Barents Sea and Svalbard 1898

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Mill, Hugh Robert, 1861-1950

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Hugh Robert Mill was born at Thurso, Scotland, on 28 May 1861. He read chemistry and physics at Edinburgh University and specialised in marine chemistry, working on the scientific reports of the Challenger expedition under Sir John Murray. In 1887, he became lecturer in geography and physiography at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh, and four years later, published The realm of nature, an important textbook of scientific geography. In 1892, he was appointed librarian of the Royal Geogr...

Bruce, William S. (William Speirs), 1867-1921

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William Speirs Bruce was born in London of Scottish parents in 1867. He was educated at Norfolk County School, England and enrolled as a medical student at the University of Edinburgh, where renowned Scottish physicists, chemists and oceanographers supervised him. In 1892, he was recommended for the post of surgeon and naturalist on board Balaena during the British Whaling Exploration (Dundee), 1892-1893. The expedition was organized to investigate the commercial possibilities of wh...

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904)

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Coats Andrew 1852-1930

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